The Insiders
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May
12
Executive interview series part III: Sarah Naiman
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Executive interview series part III: Sarah Naiman
Listen to me conduct a WHOLE interview with a woman politician without one mention of her hair, boyfriends, shoes, or smile. It’ll be brilliant. Coming up later this week: Engineering’s bizarre shame. Sarah Naiman, the AMS VP admin, and third executive to sit in the hot seat talked about SUB renovations, student life, and club […]
Apr
13
UBC Student falls off roof top, now in serious condition
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 13, 2007 | 5 Comments
This is taken from the RCMP website. Whoever the person in serious condition is, we wish them a speedy recovery.UBC student falls off roof top, now in serious condition at VHG Vancouver, UBC: Charges are pending against another student. On April 12th, 2007 at approximately 02:20 pm, RCMP members of the University of British-Columbia Detachment […]
Apr
12
Justice for the Social Justice Centre.
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 12, 2007 | 32 Comments
In lieu of recent events surrounding the Social Justice Centre, one of the AMS Resource Groups, I solicited comments from some of its involved members. The following has been written by Mike Thicke, co-editor of The Knoll and an active member of the SJC. It reflects his own personal views. The Resource Groups were created […]
Apr
11
University Boulevard
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
There is an interesting petition circulating around Facebook (the new place for activism, it seems). I’ve skimmed it and it made some excellent points, so here is a link:University Boulevard Petition Rationale (from the website linked): Listen to what students want! The “What’s the plan” campaign produced a really excellent review that reports the following, […]
Apr
7
Some Updates
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 7, 2007 | 4 Comments
1. Re: Tobacco ban on campus: the Province is suing big tobacco companies (a cost recovery lawsuit, Link). “We’ve always taken the position that because they sold and promoted their products in our market, (resulting) in damage to our citizens, that we have the right to legislate against their conduct,” said Oppal. I don’t know […]
Apr
4
AMS Committee Appointments
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 4, 2007 | 31 Comments
Important NoticeSorry Timbits, gonna hog the spotlight for 20 hours or so The AMS is appointing students to their many committees. This is where some of the major gruntwork is done at the AMS level. Once again the AMS hasn’t advertised the at large committee spots at all nor was there a preliminary description on […]
Apr
4
Bigger is better?
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 4, 2007 | 12 Comments
I’m very loyal to Arts. But people tend to respond defensively when I criticize, so I’m forced to preface this by saying “please don’t respond defensively.” In their most recent elections, the AUS had 400 voters. SUS? 1400. Which is quite the difference. But it’s even more stark if you realize for a second that […]
Apr
1
An Ideological Crusade (or, a gross waste of my tax dollars)
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 1, 2007 | 7 Comments
So, the Provincial Government is planning to implement a tobacco free campus initiative, and certain members of campus are just too overjoyed at this. I currently sit on the committee which looks at Policy 15, which will be drastically revised to ban all sales of tobacco and tobacco related products from campus grounds. (Do I […]
Apr
1
Fridays
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 1, 2007 | 18 Comments
As I gaze longingly back at years of yore, reflecting on my precious half-decade involved at UBC, I can’t help but notice the absolute depths to which campus community have plummeted. Seriously. Where are all the beer gardens? I used to love beer gardens. Not because I’d get smashed, but because it was where the […]
Mar
28
UBC on CBC radio! (X2)
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 28, 2007 | 10 Comments
I’m always on the lookout for UBC-related news in the mainstream media. And today, since I had the scholastically inauspicious displeasure of being sick as a dog at home, I had lots of time to mope around the house listening to CBC radio and doing not much else. To my happiness, two pretty interesting stories […]
